– Travellers for Change
- Grand Canyon Yearnings
- Tripping the Galapagos Islands

This issue features the Global Volunteer Guide, river-rafting the big ditch, tribal crossroads in Ethiopia, plus much more

FEATURES

24_THE BIG DITCH
It’s the grand daddy of all river trips, a mythic journey that has influenced nearly every aspect of the whitewater world. The Big Ditch is the birthplace of modern river tripping, and the training ground for many of the world’s most celebrated river runners.
STORY + PHOTOS: BRUCE KIRKBY

36_TRIBAL CROSSROADS
The life story of the tribal peoples of Ethiopia’s Omo Valley is writ large across the bodies – their very appearance a document of a disappearing culture. A journey to the lands of the Karo, Hamer and Mursi.
STORY: LIAM SHARP WITH SHEREE TAMS
PHOTOS: LIAM SHARP

49_TRAVELLERS FOR CHANGE + VOLUNTEER TRAVEL GUIDE
OUTPOST selects its annual list of 10 Canadians travelling overseas to make a change for the better. Plus short-term volunteer travel opportunities, making a career out of international development work and looking back 15 years later at how overseas volunteering changed the courses of some young cooperants’ lives.
DEPARTMENTS

07_TRIPPING
Skier Kasha Rigby is dedicated to making expeditions about more than knocking off peaks.

08_LOCAL KNOWLEDGE
Remembering Antoine de Saint-Exupery, boots to go and more travel ideas.

10_CULTURE
Reviews of music, books and film.

12_COMIX
Welcome to My Country, first in a series

14_FIELD NOTES
TURTLE TRACKS AND NEW TRAILS
A new study in Barbados hopes to further conservation of endangered sea turtle populations.

18_SOFT MACHINE
TRAVELLER HEAL THYSELF
Your next vacation could save your life.

20_TRIPFINDER
THE NEXT STEP IN EVOLUTION
Few places on Earth have taught us as much about life on our planet as the Galapagos Islands.

66_WRIGHT OF WAY
A WEEKEND IN WALES
“What’s so funny about that?” Ian wonders.

RESOURCES

58_BACKPACKERS BUZZ
Travel news and updates from Hostelling International Alberta and British Columbia